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Thinking Through Fashion
A Guide to Key Theorists
Series: Dress Cultures
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Ideal for students and scholars in fashion, dress, material culture, creative industries, sociology, cultural history, design, and cultural studies seeking to deepen their theoretical understanding of fashion.
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Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory.
It does so by offering a guide through the work of selected major thinkers, introducing their concepts and ideas. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker, capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion, while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers' ideas.
Thinking Through Fashion is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion, dress and material culture, the creative industries, sociology, cultural history, design and cultural studies.
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Thinking Through Fashion has been praised as an important and accessible pedagogical resource, useful for newcomers to academic theory as well as those wishing to refresh their knowledge. Reviews highlight its unique, comprehensive approach to applying western theorists to fashion studies, making it a vital tool for students and scholars alike. Fashion Theory calls it an important contribution, while The Journal of Dress History and The Fashion Studies Journal commend its clarity and systematic coverage.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350125209
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustration: 19 integrated bw
Contributors:
- Edited by Anneke Smelik
- Edited by Dr Agnès Rocamora
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 480g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Agnes Rocamora is Reader in Social and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She is the author of Fashioning the City: Paris, Fashion and the Media (2009) and a co-editor of The Handbook of Fashion Studies (2013) and of Fashion Media: Past and Present (2013).Anneke Smelik is Professor of Visual Culture on the Katrien van Munster chair at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Her books include Delft Blue to Denim Blue: Dutch Fashion (2016), Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture (2013) and And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory (1998).
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